Items21The creator’s order
  1. 1SkansenSkansenThe one that started it. Artur Hazelius founded Skansen in 1891 on a hill in Stockholm, gathering historic houses, farms and whole environments from different parts of Sweden so city people could see how the country had lived. Moving between regions on foot makes the differences in building,…0
  2. 2Norwegian Museum of Cultural HistoryNorwegian Museum of Cultural HistoryNorsk Folkemuseum, Oslo Two buildings make the case for this one. The stave church from Gol, dated to around 1200, shows the medieval end of Norwegian life, while the Apartment Building on the same grounds carries the story into city homes with eight period interiors, so you can compare a farm…0
  3. 3MaihaugenMaihaugenMaihaugen, Lillehammer With more than 200 buildings, Maihaugen is the place to go if one Norwegian farm is not enough. Alongside its rural buildings and the Garmo stave church, the draw for anyone curious about ordinary life is the Residential Area, where you can look inside homes from different…0
  4. 4SeurasaariSeurasaariSeurasaari Open-Air Museum, Helsinki An island setting for 87 authentic buildings relocated from various regions of Finland, covering rural life from the 17th to the 20th century. The wooded grounds make it feel less like a museum and more like walking between farms, which suits families who want…0
  5. 5FrilandsmuseetFrilandsmuseetFrilandsmuseet, Lyngby Denmark's countryside in one walk: more than 50 farms, mills and houses from 1650 to 1940, drawn from virtually every region of Denmark and the Faroe Islands, plus the former Danish provinces of southern Sweden and northern Germany. That spread lets you compare regional ways…0
  6. 6Den Gamle ByDen Gamle ByDen Gamle By, Aarhus Where most open-air museums show the countryside, Den Gamle By shows Danish market towns, and it does so across four periods: 1864, 1927, 1974 and 2014. Just over 75 buildings were brought to Aarhus from various parts of Denmark, and the later quarters, with their retro…0
  7. 7St Fagans National Museum of HistorySt Fagans National Museum of HistoryFree entry is the first thing to know: thanks to Welsh Government support, it costs nothing to walk through more than forty original buildings from different historical periods, re-erected since 1948 in 100 acres of parkland near Cardiff. That makes it ideal for families who want to come back often…0
  8. 8Beamish MuseumBeamish MuseumBeamish, County Durham Beamish tells the story of North East England across four periods: an 1820s Georgian landscape and waggonway, a 1900s pit village and a town set in 1913, a 1940s wartime farm and a 1950s town. Some buildings were saved and moved here, including St Helen's Church, rebuilt…0
  9. 9Blists Hill Victorian TownBlists Hill Victorian TownBlists Hill is a recreated working-class town in the East Shropshire Coalfield, set in the year 1900, and its focus is narrower and sharper than the big regional museums. Rather than sampling many periods, it concentrates on one industrial community, and craftspeople demonstrating their trades in…0
  10. 10Black Country Living MuseumBlack Country Living MuseumBlack Country Living Museum, Dudley Over 80 shops, houses and industrial workshops cover more than 250 years of the Black Country, from the Industrial Revolution to postwar prosperity. Many were translocated, taken down, numbered and rebuilt on site, and the Workers' Institute from Cradley Heath…0